Greene News

Despite its name, Rice City is one of the least urban spots in Rhode Island. The rural village, halfway between Providence and Norwich, Conn., was once known for being a stagecoach stop on Plainfield Pike, which was then a toll road.

The attack by Massachusetts soldiers on the Gortonists at Shawomet in 1643. One of the first six colonists to receive "home lots" in Providence was the remarkable John Greene, Surgeon.

Settled in 1677, the Hill and Harbor district is the historic center of East Greenwich, as well as the home of the downtown business district on Main Street.

A 15-unit condominium project that will provide some sorely needed affordable housing to the town was unanimously approved by the Planning Board Wednesday night.

Maxwell Mays, a Providence-born painter whose whimsical depictions of Rhode Island made him one of the state's best-known artists and who combined a playful folk-art style with an encyclopedic knowledge of local history, died Monday at age 91.

A cool and wet growing season has been tough on the region's pumpkin crop, but David Frerichs is expecting between 30 and 50 growers to enter tons of pumpkins in the 16th annual Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Championship Saturday.

After living in tents for half a year, Roland Colpitts and Barbara Ferrara will move into one of the city's first-ever apartments for homeless couples.

The town has told the chief of the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe to order a homeless encampment off a Superfund hazardous waste site by Wednesday or face court action.

With their tents and their plastic bags filled with personal belongings serving as a backdrop, the leaders of the homeless community known as Hope City held a news conference under a bridge near the Providence River Tuesday to announce that they won't be able clear the premises as ordered by a judge.

The homeless occupants at Hope City have until noon on Wednesday to move from their spot beneath a former Route 195 bridge.

William Shatner is not coming to the Columbus Theater Thursday to introduce his film, William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet, and to accept the first Nathanael Greene Humanitarian Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival .